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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFIcE.

GEORGE E S'IEDMAN, OF NEW YQRK, N. Y.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,344, dated February13, 1883, Application filed November 29, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. STEDMAN, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view. of my improvement shown as fastening a strap.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

The object of this invention is to promote convenience in bucklin g andun buckling straps.

The invention consists in a buckle made with openings in the side of itsframe upon the opposite sides of the tongue-bar. The end of theframe-bar, at the rear end of the buckle, is bent downward to cross theside edges of the straps, and the free end of the ton gue-bar is bentupward to cross the side edges of the straps, whereby the said strapswill be held securely in place, and can be readily inserted in thebuckle-frame and removed therefrom, as will be hereinafter fullydescribed.

A is a bar of such a length and size as the kind of buckle to be mademay require. The ends of the bar Aarc bent into U-shape, to form the endparts of the buckle-frame.

B is the tongue-bar, which I prefer to make with its ends bent upward atright angles, to form a space below the level of the buckleframe toreceive the straps. One ,end of the tongue-barB is welded to orotherwise formed upon the middle part of the side bar,A,of the frame.The other end of the tongue-bar B is free, and is bent upward to serveas a stop to hold the straps from lateral movement upon the said bar.

,0 is the tongue, which is hinged to the bar '13 in the ordinary manner.

bar of the buckle-frame. The end of thebend I A of the bar A, thatserves as a keeper to confine the free end of the strap, is bent back,as

shown in Fig. 2, so as. to cross the edges of to be secured, and whichhas a number of holes formed through it to receive the tongue 0, is

passed into the end A of the buckle-frame through its open side, thetongue 0 is passed through a hole in the said strap E, and the free endof the strap E is passed through the open side of the buckle-frame Ainto the end A The strap is unbuckled by passing its free end out of theend A through the open side of the buckle-frame, drawing the said strapoh the tongue 0, and then passing the strap out of the bend A throughthe open side of the buckle-frame.

Thebuckle thus made is especially useful upon the interior straps ofvalises, upon trunks, and in pther places where it is inconvenient to.pass'the ends of the straps through the frame of a buckle made in theordinary manner.

I am aware that a buckle having an openin g at one side fontbeintroduction of the strap is not new, and I therefore make no claimthereto; but

What I do claim as my invention is- 1. In a buckle having a centraltongue and an opening in one side of its frame, the downwardly-bent endA as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a buckle consisting of a frame open at one side and one end bentto form a keeper for the straps, a transverse tongue-bar with upturnedends, one of which is connected to the frame, and a tongue, 0,substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE E. STEDMAN.

Witnesses:

O. SEnGwIoK, Enw. M. CLARK.

